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A History of the County of Hampshire
… to a house which standing to the west at the top of the hill is the first sign of Sutton Scotney village, and from …
A History of the County of Buckingham
… and 367 ft. on the road to the south-west of Juniper Hill. The soil is loam and gravel, the subsoil chalk and … grounds. 8 Traces of the terraces which they cut in the hill are still visible. The old palace was surrounded by a … of the grounds of Wooburn House is Burghers or Beggars Hill, with a school and chapel, and beyond in the same …
A History of the County of Oxford
… house, lay up on the hillside to the north of Drun's Hill, south-east of the village, and was presumably built … About half a mile north of the village on a low detached hill considerable traces of a Celtic settlement have been …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… Archd. Hunt. Reg. iv, fol. 24. Manor Place with Castle Hill are mentioned. Star Ch. Proc. loc. cit. Chan. Inq. p.m. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… then loops northwards and eastwards to enclose Woodborough Hill, and passes southwards to join the old path to Pewsey in … north-east to south-west. In the northeast Woodborough Hill rises to 671 ft., but there is lower land, below 375 … favoured arable cultivation except near the summit of the hill where the gradient is steep, and in the well drained …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the parish and the village lies on the slope of the hill rising from the river along the by-road from …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the church a road runs northward to Carshalton down the hill-side. On the east side of this road are some half-timber … up so numerously near Purley station have spread up the hill into part of Woodmansterne parish. Woodmansterne school … Anne became sole heir; her husband, Sir William Smijth of Hill Hall, co. Essex, died in 1823. Sir Thomas, their second …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… At a small distance from the church is Woodnesborough hill, both of which are sea marks. This hill is a very high mount, seemingly thrown up by art, and … northward from hence, at the bottom of a short steep hill, lies the village called Woodnesborough-street, and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… them recently built. The church of St. Peter stands on a hill to the north of the village, and next to it are the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… partly in the vale and partly on the slopes of an outlying hill of the Cotswold escarpment. The parish, which was 787 a. … the valley that divides the outlier known as Woolstone Hill and Oxenton Hill from the main escarpment of the Cotswolds, marked the …